Display stand



F. A. SUNDERHAUF DISPLAY STAND Filed April 18, 1936 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIA U HMMM Nov. 3, 1936.

Patented Nov. 3, 1936 PATENT OFFICE DISPLAY STAND Frederick A. Sunderhauf, Rutherford, N. J., as-

signor to Reynolds Metals Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application April 18, 1936, Serial No."l5,1'i3

3 Claims.

The present invention relates generally to portable folding display stands and an object thereof is the provision of a simple, inexpensive device of this nature, which is normally flat, and which in its effective position presents a seat for an article supported thereby and reflecting surfaces framing the article so supported, to bring the latter into pleasing prominence and display the same in a manner to materially enhance its appearance.

A further object of the invention is a stand which may be converted from a normal fiat position, providing for transportation and handling with minimum expense and difliculty, to an effective supporting position in a single movement and having means to limit such movement of its shiftable parts in order to avoid danger of marring and breaking the same.

A further object is the provision of a stand of the above character, having panels or portions foldable in relatively opposite directions to form an article support, and having means movable therewith to limit such folding movement and automatically arrest the parts when effective position thereof has been reached.

A still further object is the provision of a portable display stand which will present a neat pleasing appearance, which is durable, and in which the foldable panels or portions materially contribute to its strength and steadiness in useful position.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the invention and forms a part of this specificaion,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the stand in useful position.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken centrally therethrough.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken centrally therethrough, and

Figure 4 is a face view of the stand blank as originally formed.

Referring now to these figures, the invention contemplates a stand, the fiat blank of which, as shown in Figure 4, is out along definite lines to form a pair of similar, centrally located and laterally adjacent panels I and H, the blank being formed of stiff material such as cardboard I2 and having its entire front face covered with a sheet or film iii of suitable reflecting material such for instance as bright metal foil, preferably aluminum .foil.

The out line 84 between the panels Ill and H, extends partially through the blank from its rear face, while the cut lines I5 and I6 between the outer vertical edges of the said panels and side portions or wings I! and I8 extend partially through the blank from its front face.

The upper and lower edges of the panels I!) and II are cut entirely through the blank along lines l9 and 20, respectively, between these central panels and upper and lower panels, of which the upper panel 2! is in a single piece with hingelike end pieces 22 joining the same with the side wings I1 and I8, and the lower panel is centrally divided by a out line 23 into panels 24 and 25, respectively, integral at their outer ends with the lower portions of the side wings H and 18. Cut line 23 extends partially through the blank from the front face.

Secured to the rear faces of the lower panels 24 and 25 at opposite sides of the hinge forming line 23, are the hinged end portions 26 of a foldable supporting strip in two hinged sections 271' yieldable rearwardly from the blank, the lower edge of which strip is flush with the lower edge of the blank to cooperate with the latter and the upper edge of which is slightly below the lower edges of panels l0 and H so that when the latter are pressed rearwardly simultaneously with the forward folding movement of the lower panels 24 and 25, as when the stand is set up from the normal fiat blank of Figure 4 to the useful position of Figure 1, the sections 21 of the supporting strip yield rearwardly in parallel relation with panels In and H to form, in a substantially right angular position, a support for a bottle or jar and the like which thus upstands in the angle between the similarly related panels in and y l l.

Moreover, to limit the above movement of the parts and check the same in a position wherein "the panels ill and N Stand at a forwardly open right angle and the lower panels 24 and'25 are at a rearwardly open right angle, there is attached to the rear surface of the blank beneathone of the hinged end portions 26 of the supporting strip, the hinged end portion 28 of a brace member 29. This member normally lies beneath the supporting strip, and is longer than either section thereof whereby it may extend in the open position diagonally across the square formed by the supporting strip and the lower panels 22 and and thus act as a wedge to prevent further movement, as will be plainly seen by reference to Figures 1 and 3.

In the open position, the upper panel 2! extends across the angle of the panels I 0 and H by virtue of the yielding of its hinged end portions 22 and it, like the lower panels 24 and 25 and the side wings I1 and I, all of which frame the central panels, presents a surface which is especially adapted to receive printed matter in reference to the display article, or any suitable or desired decorations, or both.

Since, as before stated, the upper edge of the strip forming the hinged foldable sections 21 is below the upper edges of the lower front panels 24 and 25, and forms, with brace member 29, a seat for the displayed bottle in the position shown in dotted lines in Figures 1 and 3, it is obvious the bottle is prevented from rearward movement off of its seat by the panels In and H and likewise prevented from slipping forwardly by the upper edges of panels 24 and 25. Moreover, it is thus easy'to position and center the displayed bottle by placing it on its seat and shifting it forwardly into contact with the upto form an article support below and forwardly of the first mentioned panels, and a limiting brace extending diagonally across the space between said lower panels and said supporting members.

2. A display stand having hingedly connected reflecting panels at an angle to one another, hingedly connected supporting panels below and forwardly of said reflecting panels and at an angle to one another oppositely with respect to the angle of the reflecting panels, angular hingedly-connected members carried by the supporting panels at the rear thereof and forming with the latter a rectangular support for the stand, and a brace member extending diagonally within and across said support and hingedly connected at one end thereof to the support and having its other end free,'the front surfaces of said panels having a covering layer of bright metal foil.

3. A display stand for folding into and out of flat position, consisting of upper, lower and central panels and side wings, said central panels being hinged to one another and to the side wings to fold rearwardly in use into angular positions relative to one another, said lower panels being rigid with the lower portions of the side wings and hingedly connected to one another to fold forwardly into angular positions relative to one another, and said upper panel having relatively short hinged sections at the sides thereof in hinged connection with the upper portions of the side wings to extend, in use, across the angles of the central and lower panels, and foldable means hingedly attached to the rear of the lower panels and cooperating therewith to form a support for the stand in use and for an article to be displayed.

FREDERICK A. SUNDERHAUF. 

